Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 11:42:38AM -0600, Chris wrote: > >> Matt Zimmerman wrote: >> >>> The Ubuntu Technical Board has made two technical decisions of which we >>> would like to inform the Ubuntu community. Both of these decisions concern >>> the upcoming 7.04 release of Ubuntu, scheduled for mid-April. >>> >>> The PowerPC Architecture >>> ------------------------ >>> >>> Summary: >>> >>> Beginning with Ubuntu 7.04, the PowerPC edition of Ubuntu will be >>> reclassified as unofficial. The PowerPC software itself and supporting >>> infrastructure will continue to be available, and supported by a community >>> team. >>> >> It would be nice to see support for Sparc devices. Is this something in >> the works? Case in point, I have several Sparc10 I would love to toss >> Ubuntu on. >> > > SPARC has been an official Ubuntu platform for the past two releases, > Ubuntu 6.06 LTS and Ubuntu 6.10. Prior to that, it was an unofficial > platform. > > SPARC is ambiguous. I'm not sure what you mean by a SPARC10 - if you mean SPARCstation 10 then we don't have support from those (10 years old+ 32bit machines). Debian does in its SPARC port, as does *BSD.
What Ubuntu calls SPARC everyone else seems to call SPARC64. Our documentation is confused (and bug reported..) - from reading the forums our SPARC port runs on Sun 4u - not the earlier Sun 4m and Sun4c. It also presumably runs on the newer ones mentioned in the marketing blurb - I think these are called sun4v. It may run on these as they are backward compatible with 4u. I'm pretty sure we are shipping 4u. I have some smp 66Mhz SPARCstation 20s here I could test if we think we do run on sun 4m. I'd love to say I've stuck Ubuntu on my Ultra 1 but I haven't as we don't provide a boot floppy (this is an upstream bug). I don't feel like setting up the non-trivial netbooting (our instructions are really crap in this regard also) and have stuck bsd on it instead.. While I'm having a SPARC whinge - we need to ship an smp kernel - don't expect people to pay $$ for a server box and either only run one cpu or compile the kernel. Compiling a kernel is *very* not ubuntu in my eyes. We need to ship a SPARC cd with X on. Many of the supported machines are workstations not servers. Leaving the user with the command line is A Bad Thing too. Caroline -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
